---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing additional renewals for behavioral health professional trainee and associate credentials."
description: "Allowing additional renewals for behavioral health professional trainee and associate credentials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 1063"
citation: "Washington HB 1063 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNSELORS AND COUNSELING", "COVID-19 AND CORONAVIRUS", "SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harris"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-12-31T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ef521b1-2786-402e-b20f-e10c7e722c0e"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1063&year=2021"
source_hash: "4ce19394b3cdd7f8ce8a39c3c7f9b69a4d6929276db5c0e058014e1e92ae6f34"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---

# Washington HB 1063 (2021-2022) — Allowing additional renewals for behavioral health professional trainee and associate credentials.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2021-22/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1063.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#3) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harris — primary (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Cody — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Rule — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-12-31T05:00:00+00:00** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2021-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-14T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 10:00 AM.
- **2021-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2021-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2021-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2021-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2021-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2021-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** BH - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2021-03-31T04:00:00+00:00** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2021-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Chapter 57, 2021 Laws. `became-law`
- **2021-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Effective date 4/16/2021. `became-law`
- **2021-01-14T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 10:00 AM
- **2021-01-20T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 08:00 AM
- **2021-03-10T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 08:00 AM
- **2021-03-12T15:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM
- **2021-03-19T14:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ef521b1-2786-402e-b20f-e10c7e722c0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).